Bug#377581: tetex-base: Creating of missing formats failed with dpkg --configure started in /usr/bin
Package: tetex-base
Version: 3.0-19
Severity: normal
Due to some problems on my machine I had to install tetex-bin manually
with dpkg -i tetex-bin_... . During the configure step I got the error
that some of the formats can't be built. In the refered file in /tmp I
found the following lines:
fmtutil: running `pdfetex -ini -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex
-translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini' ...
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/web2c/cp227.tcx)
entering extended mode
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/amstex/config/amstex.ini
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/plain/base/plain.tex
Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, parameters, fonts, more
fonts,
macros, math definitions, output routines, hyphenation
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)) (/usr/bin/amstex
! Text line contains an invalid character.
l.1 ^^?
ELF^^A^^A^^A^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^B^^@^^C^^@^^A^^@^^@^^@<C0><A8>^^D^...
?
! Emergency stop.
l.1 ^^?
ELF^^A^^A^^A^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^B^^@^^C^^@^^A^^@^^@^^@<C0><A8>^^D^...
No pages of output.
Transcript written on amstex.log.
The reason for this is that I started the dpkg job in /usr/bin , so that
the amstex binary was included instead of the amstex-TeX-file.
Please make sure that pdfetex is started in a proper directory (e.g.
the direcorty of all the templates) despite of the directory dpkg is
started. Using apt-get -f install to configure tetex-base on the other
hand works normally.
I read the following instructionscaregfully, but I'm sorry, I don't add
other files, because none files will help you ;-)
-- Package-specific info:
If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related binaries
(latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad or wrong
output, please include a MINIMAL example input file that produces the
error in your report. Don't forget to also include minimal examples of
other files that are needed, e.g. bibtex databases. Often it also helps
to include the logfile. Please, never send included pictures!
If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of
output (except when multiple pages are needed to show the problem),
you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that
can be found at
http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html (english)
or
http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini.html (german)
##################################
minimal input file
##################################
other files
######################################
List of ls-R files
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root kmem 1081 Jul 10 10:01 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 25 Oct 19 2005 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-LOCAL
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 27 10:59 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Jul 10 09:57 /usr/share/texmf-tetex/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFDIST-TETEX
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii tex-common 0.25 Common infrastructure for using an
ii ucf 2.0012 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages tetex-base recommends:
pn tetex-doc <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.2 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.16.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dialog 1.0-20060221-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii dpkg 1.13.22 package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-7 GCC support library
ii libice6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkpathsea4 3.0-17 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.19 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpoppler0c2 0.4.5-4.1 PDF rendering library
ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.1.0-2 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 1:1.0.1-5 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.4.2-3 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii mime-support 3.36-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.8-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.5-1 The GNU sed stream editor
ii ucf 2.0012 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii whiptail 0.52.2-5 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
ii tetex-bin 3.0-17 The teTeX binary files
ii ucf 2.0012 Update Configuration File: preserv
-- debconf information:
tetex-base/olddat: true
tetex-base/fmtutil-failed:
* tetex-bin/cnf_name:
* tetex-bin/texmf: true
tetex-base/oldcfg: true
tetex-base/oldupdm:
tetex-base/updmap-failed:
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